Conferences and Workshops

  • Co-directing a workshop titled: “GCC States and Non-Arab Regional Middle Powers: Opportunities and Challenges Amidst Shifting Regional Balances” with Dr. Hamad Albloshi at 15th Gulf Research Meeting to be held in Cambridge on July 22-24, 2025.
  • Presented talk on “Turkey and the Gulf States policies in Syria in the post-Assad era” at Preliminary session: “Is a New Middle East in the Making?” of 3rd Beirut Security Debates (BSD) held in American University of Beirut, Lebanon, on April 8-9, 2025.
  • Presented talk on “Strategic Partnership between the GCC and Turkey: Role of culture, media, and soft power” at GCC-Turkey Defense, Economic, and Cultural Partnerships: A Strategic Overview, to be held on February 3-4, 2025, Istanbul.
  • Presented paper titled “Contextualizing Women’s Empowerment in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States’ Diplomacy” presented at workshop on The Gulf Family: Transition, Tradition, and Tenacity at 14th Gulf Research Meeting held in Cambridge on July 9-11, 2024
  • Presented paper titled “Implications of Change and Continuity in GCC Leaderships on State-Business Relations: Experiences of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait” presented at workshop on Economy, Governance, and Reform at Gulf Studies Symposium held in Georgetown University, Washington, on March 4-5, 2024.
  • Presented talk on “Turkey’s Foreign Policy in the Gaza war, and the impact of this policy on Turkish- Gulf relations” presented at 2nd Beirut Security Debates (BSD) titled The Gaza War and the Regional Turmoil in the Middle East held in American University of Beirut, Lebanon, on February 2, 2024.
  • Presented paper titled “Saudi foreign policy towards KRG in the post-2003 era: Assessing Iran’s role” in a workshop entitled The Consequences of the Kurdistan Independence Referendum: Relations between KRG – Iran/the GCC at tenth Gulf Research Meeting held in Cambridge on July 15-18, 2019.
  • Presented paper titled “Russian-Gulf relations in post-Arab uprisings: Syrian war as the case study” in a workshop entitled The Gulf Post-Syrian-Crisis Political Architecture and the Roles of the External Actors: the USA, Russia and China at ninth Gulf Research Meeting held in Cambridge on July 31 to August 3, 2018.
  • Presented paper titled “The Reality and Future of the Turkish-GCC Relations” in a workshop entitled The Future of Turkey’s Model and Role organized by Emirates Policy Center in Abu Dhabi in May 2014.